Dádiva na Grota dos Puris: trocas de objetos e outros vínculos

Abstract

This ethnography deals with the exchange practices of objects and services within the Grota dos Puris community, located in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Has as its interest the Marcel Mauss analysis of the ritual gift, the social commitment based on the act of giving-receiving-reciprocate. Therefore, we observe kinship, customs, religion and morality thematics in the group studied. We found a social organization of interdependence out from the continuing significance of material goods in terms of personal relationships. We also consider the the public administration relationship with the community, and the uses that it makes of the gift logic.